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GET /v1/search/artists

Search artists

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/search/artists" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/search/artists", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/search/artists");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/search/artists",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 29,
        "query": "radiohead",
        "artists": [
            {
                "id": "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
                "area": "United Kingdom",
                "name": "Radiohead",
                "tags": [
                    "rock",
                    "electronic",
                    "post-rock",
                    "alternative rock",
                    "experimental",
                    "british",
                    "grunge",
                    "idm",
                    "uk",
                    "britannique",
                    "indie rock",
                    "electronica",
                    "alternative",
                    "britpop",
                    "art rock",
                    "post-grunge",
                    "experimental rock",
                    "english",
                    "chamber pop",
                    "parlophone",
                    "england",
                    "indietronica",
                    "melancholic",
                    "oxford",
                    "crossover prog",
                    "bootleg",
                    "rock and indie",
                    "britrock",
                    "electronic rock",
                    "ambient pop",
                    "c’était mieux avant",
                    "art pop",
                    "nude",
                    "trap edm",
                    "sacred cows",
                    "alternative rock music",
                    "lolicore",
                    "post-britpop",
                    "progressive rock music",
                    "1992-1998",
                    "new grave",
                    "vyrzukhisuc-artiest"
                ],
                "type": "Group",
                "isnis": [
                    "0000000115475162"
                ],
                "score": 100,
                "country": "GB",
                "life_span": {
                    "begin": "1991",
                    "ended": null
                },
                "relations": [],
                "sort_name": "Radiohead",
                "begin_area": "Abingdon-on-Thames"
            },
            {
                "id": "c74f4726-2671-4011-81b6-f70da905c05a",
                "area": "Abingdon-on-Thames",
                "name": "On a Friday",
                "tags": [
                    "indie pop",
                    "uk",
                    "oxford",
                    "united kingdom",
                    "successor"
                ],
                "type": "Group",
                "score": 64,
                "life_span": {
                    "end": "1991",
                    "begin": "1985",
                    "ended": true
                },
                "relations": [],
                "sort_name": "On a Friday",
                "begin_area": "Abingdon-on-Thames",
                "disambiguation": "pre‐Radiohead group, until 1991"
            },
            {
               
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